China News Service, September 5th. According to the Washington Post, US federal data shows that nearly one-third of the American people suffered from natural disasters, such as storms and floods, during the past summer.
Analysis shows that 32% of Americans live in counties where the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has declared a weather disaster.
"Washington Post" reported that "in the past three months, about one of the three U.S. citizens has lived in an area suffering from natural disasters."
In the past three months, many parts of the United States have experienced devastating heat waves, wildfires, floods, hurricanes and other natural disasters, which are largely related to climate change.
The analysis found that 64% of people live in areas where high temperatures are raging.
Although officials did not regard the high temperature as a natural disaster, the unusually high temperature this summer has caused dozens of deaths.
In the early summer, the Pacific Northwest was hit by heat waves for several days. The wires melted and people were forced to live in the summer shelter.
At the end of June, Amazon opened a summer center at the convention center in downtown Seattle.
Recently, Hurricane Ada killed dozens of people on the east coast, leaving tens of thousands without electricity.
In the west, firefighters have been fighting fires throughout the summer. Dozens of wildfires destroyed thousands of buildings and forced thousands of residents to evacuate their homes.
The newspaper pointed out that the natural disasters caused by climate change have "expanded", indicating that the trend has been intensifying since at least 2018.
It is reported that since June in the United States, at least 388 people have died due to storms, floods, major fires and forest fires.